Washington · Nonprofit
NewLife Ethiopia
NewLife Ethiopia (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,918 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($44,950). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $502k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $619k
What NewLife Ethiopia does
Mission
To share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to unreached people groups in Ethiopia. To give care to children in Ethiopia who have been abandoned or removed from parental care by government authority.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Working alongside indigenous Ethiopian churches, NLE supported 38 missionaries working in 24 rural villages. Along with community development such as food aid and literacy education for children, the missionaries shared the hope of Jesus Christ with 6,080 people. 604 new believers were discipled by the missionaries and found strength and support in one of the 18 churches built among 3 tribal people groups. 3 new churches were constructed, and 460 children were taught to read through literacy classes held in churches. The final year of our 2-year Bible training program had 12 graduates. Two further trainings were given to all missionaries in an oral inductive Bible study method, and 40 children's leaders were instructed in how to establish Children's Clubs in their communities. 61 children received an outstanding kindergarten education and were provided the necessary supports to enter first grade at the government school. The children were given a nutritious daily lunch, a full set of new clothes, and their families were helped with farming, clothing, bedding, and donkey and cart to generate income and to more easily access water. NLE provides full financial resources to operate a…
$314,159 spentof which $119,331 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $314,159.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $502k to $621k (+24%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of NewLife Ethiopia’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $41k → $1k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of NewLife Ethiopia’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NewLife Ethiopia leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NewLife Ethiopia.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 87% · 2022 67% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
20% of NewLife Ethiopia's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of NewLife Ethiopia's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $46k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
NewLife Ethiopia runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NewLife Ethiopia
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NewLife Ethiopia: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NewLife Ethiopia?
- NewLife Ethiopia (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,918 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($44,950). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NewLife Ethiopia have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $130,918 in grants to NewLife Ethiopia, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NewLife Ethiopia?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $44,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NewLife Ethiopia find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing